Server and supercomputer firm, SGI, has offered its journaled file system, XFS, to the Linux community under open source guidelines. SGI says the adoption of its file system will push Linux forward as a platform for enterprise-class applications.
Hollywood studios filed a second round of lawsuits against online movie-swappers last week, stepping up legal pressure on the file-trading community. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) also made available a new free software tool so...
One tool, known as Prefast, runs on each developer's workstation to check code for simple problems. In December, Coverity looked at version 2.6.9 of the Linux kernel, the heart of the open source operating system, and found six critical defects in...
Microsoft surprised developers on Monday by releasing a test version of a new Windows file system. The software giant had originally planned to release WinFS - which it said would make for better desktop file searching - as part of the next version...
New security features planned for the Longhorn version of Windows Server will include an automatic patch check and a file system that can fix itself, Microsoft said. Essentially, "self-healing" means Microsoft's defrag and chkdsk, or check disk...
A free program released on Thursday, called Digital File Check, will uninstall or disable file-sharing programs on people's computers. Dan Glickman, the president of the MPAA, said in a statement: "Digital File Check is easy to use and can help...